Re: Bachelor valve radio
In the immediate-post-WWII era there were loads of small radio-manufacturers, often set up by demobilised "Signals mechanics" or REME-types, who produced a range of radios of variable quality/performance, frequently using a lot of 'Government Surplus' components.
A local 'jobbing joiner/carpenter' would have knocked-up cases using whatever wood was available in the times-of-rationing-and-austerity.
Looking at your "Bachelor" it could well be one such radio - a simple superhet. Though it's a bit more-upmarket than many because it includes a shortwave band!
I don't see any signs of a mains-transformer, power-supply rectifier/smoothing-capacitors or an output-valve/transformer; I'm wondering if the assorted connecting-leads might have connected to another chassis which held these?
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